For Kazakhstans Olympic athletes, winning gold at this summers Games in London will not be enough to satisfy the authorities back home. They also have to ensure the correct national anthem is played when they receive their medals.

Kazakhstan has had a series of embarrassing hiccups with its national anthem over the past year, culminating at a shooting tournament in Kuwait when a fake version of the anthem created by the comic character Borat was accidently played instead of the real one.

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The main trigger for the warning was the error at the shooting competition in March in Kuwait.

At the tournament, Kuwaiti officials downloaded the wrong Kazakh national anthem, and instead of the sombre tones of My Kazakhstan, the athletes on the winners podium had to listen Borats English-language song about the cleanliness of Kazakh prostitutes.

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